Rebellious Contract Beast

Qu Xiangui's expression froze for a moment, and he suddenly felt a little angry.

It was because I didn't know that I told him not to ask too much. How could this guy be so petty?
As expected of a traveling merchant!

For a moment, the impression of Yang Bayuan in his mind decreased a lot.

If the new gang leader had not given instructions, he would have had the other party taught a lesson long ago.

However, how would Qu Xiangui know? Yang Bayuan had no idea whether He Jianchuyun knew anyone named Shen, so naturally he couldn't say anything.

Both parties were silent on the way, no one spoke, Yang Bo and Li Rong looked at each other, feeling the atmosphere was very awkward.

It was not until the four of them walked back to the stands that Qu Xiangui spoke up, "Brother Yang, for the next five days, these people will be under your charge. They will do whatever you tell them to do. If anyone disobeys, just tell me and I will take care of them."

“Will these people really listen to me?”

"Of course, there are more than just this kind of people. I will take you to other halls later so that you can get familiar with them. If you really have concerns, why not give it a try now?"

"Then I'll try."

"Okay!" Qu Xiangui nodded, then looked at the people below, exerted his spiritual power, and shouted, "All Tiger Gang disciples, listen to my orders!"

His voice was not loud, but with the blessing of spiritual power, it was extremely penetrating, and everyone present could clearly hear what he said.

"Listen carefully, this is Manager Yang, an important guest of our Tiger Gang. From now on, you must do whatever he tells you to do. If you disobey, you will be punished according to the gang rules! Do you hear me?"

"heard it!!!"

Hundreds of Tiger Gang disciples in the martial arts training ground shouted in unison. The sound was so powerful, like an overwhelming tidal wave, making people's heart beat faster.

Qu Xiangui showed a satisfied smile on his face, stepped aside, and said to Yang Bayuan: "Brother Yang, it's your turn."

Upon hearing this, Yang Bayuan nodded, took a step forward, took a deep breath, and forced a serious look on his face.

It was his first time facing so many people, so he couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

"Brothers, I am not talented enough to command you, but since Hall Master Qu has given me this opportunity today, I will give it a try. Please don't blame me, brothers."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the people below. No one responded to him. Seeing this, he turned around and glanced at Qu Xiangui, but the other party just signaled him to continue with his eyes and did not say anything.

"Then brothers, take a step forward?"

Hundreds of Tiger Gang disciples below hesitated for a moment after hearing Yang Bayuan's words, but soon a "clattering" sound was heard, and all the Tiger Gang disciples took a step forward, but they were sparsely distributed, and the formation was particularly chaotic.

Seeing that they really did it, Yang Bayuan's nervousness disappeared a little, and he regained some of the feeling he had in the winery, and his expression became natural.

“Take a step back!”

Crash! …

"Take one step back!"

Wow!

"Squat down!"

Swish! !

"Get up!"

Wow!
……

"Brother Yang, how do you feel?"

"As expected of the Tiger Gang disciples, every one of them is like a tiger!"

"As long as Brother Yang is satisfied."

"But Master Qu, with so many people beating drums and gongs on the street, will this cause trouble?"

"Don't worry about this. The City Affairs Department has already taken care of it. No one will say anything. Just go ahead, Brother Yang."

"That's good, that's good, but since it's that... sensationalism...?"

"What do you mean by grandstanding? That's called corporate propaganda!"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's corporate propaganda! Corporate propaganda! I made a mistake. Sorry."

"Brother Yang, can you please speak frankly?"

"That's right. Since this is a corporate promotion... then I think the people who should be involved should be those who... can make the people feel close to them! Otherwise, this action may backfire, Master Qu..."

Yang Bayuan stuttered out his thoughts, but before he could finish, Qu Xiangui interrupted him and said sarcastically: "I understand what you mean, Brother Yang. My people have irregular facial features and don't look like good people. If they go out, they will only scare people and damage the image of the company, right?"

"I'm glad that Master Qu understands." Yang Bayuan nodded with a smile.

He didn't know yet that the people in the martial arts training ground had actually been selected. All the Tiger Gang disciples who had ferocious faces and did not look like good people were now serving as gatekeepers around the Shen Mansion.

What Qu Xiangui said was what Shen Yi had said to him the day before yesterday, and he repeated it word for word.

Not wanting to say anything more, Qu Xiangui didn't waste any words and immediately took the three of them down from the stands and asked Yang Bayuan to filter again those Tiger Gang disciples who participated in the "corporate publicity".

"Brother Yang, if there's someone you don't like, just ask him to come out."

"Then I will begin. Don't mind it, Master Qu."

"No, no, Brother Yang, please."

"That, that person, the fifth person in this row, he doesn't look good, let him come out."

"Did you hear that? Why don't you come out now?"

"And that guy over there, he looks so fierce, what if he scares people?"

"come out!"

"Master Qu, did you see that person? He's missing an ear, and he looks so bad!"

"..."

"Hey! It's you! Come out too."

"..."

"You big, strong man, how can you do this? Get out!"

"..."

"You, you, you...you get out too!"

"..."

"Master Qu! Look at these people, is there any one who looks like a good person?"

"..."

Qu Xiangui didn't want to talk anymore. This was something he hadn't expected. Yang Bayuan was much more picky than the new gang leader Shen Yi. After some pointing and criticizing, more than seventy of the original three hundred Tiger disciples were directly eliminated.

Now they are standing by with their heads down.

Qu Xiangui wanted to get angry, but Shen Yi said that after Yang Bayuan arrived, he would be in charge of all matters. After all, he knew more about business matters than he did. Qu Xiangui had no choice but to endure it and took him to other halls to meet with the outer disciples there. This round trip took a whole day.

……

The weather was getting colder and colder. The pond in the backyard of Mingyan Courtyard had already been covered with a thin layer of ice. The girl on the shore was stirring the frozen water with a branch she had found from somewhere in her hand, looking extremely bored.

"You're quite free today, old witch."

A dull voice came from the side. The girl glanced at it, then quickly turned back and muttered, "I don't have as much free time as you."

"Have you finished making the elixirs that the Chen family wants?"

“No, but almost.”

He Jian Chu Yun said so, and then he thought of something and became interested, so he asked Shen Yi: "I'm just bored, do you want to play cards?"

"What card?"

"Of course it's the Four Seasons brand!"

"I only play Landlord!"

Shen Yi refused without even thinking about it. Four Seasons is a very popular board game in this world and is very common in gambling houses. Wu Gong and his friends used to play this kind of card game when they were bored.

On weekdays, the game he played with the old witch was either Landlord or Four Seasons Cards, but Shen Yi always won the former and lost the latter.

The reason is very simple. Shen Yi has never understood the rules of the Four Seasons Cards. There are six points from one to six, and each point has four different background cards, namely grass and trees, flying birds, mountains and rivers, and the sun and the moon, totaling twenty-four cards.

Each player can only have three cards in each round. When playing a card, two cards with the same background must be played. Each time a card is played, it is counted. Cards with different backgrounds have different effects. For example, if a player plays two cards with the sun and moon backgrounds, one with three points and one with six points, then the card with the lowest point will be counted, so the count is three. But the card with the flying bird background is different. It counts the card with the highest point.

When the pool is exhausted or all three players have cards, the player with the highest count wins.

And what follows is the part that Shen Yi doesn't understand the most. In the end, the decks of cards played by the three players will determine different seasons based on the different combinations of background cards.

Two days ago, he had clearly played two sets of flying bird background cards and one set of mountain and river background cards, with a total of fourteen points, far exceeding Zhu Hong and the old witch. However, the result was judged to be winter, and all his counts were reset to zero, indicating that the old witch won. He was so angry that he stopped playing, suspecting that the old witch was working with Zhu Hong to mess with him.

In addition to this, there are many other rules that he doesn't understand, so I won't go into detail. In short, he won't touch this thing until he fully understands the rules of the Four Seasons Cards, and he won't have any experience with it at all.

"Let's just play for a bit. I'll teach you while you play, okay?"

"Go play with Zhuhong by yourself, don't drag me along."

"It's no fun playing with two people, it takes three people."

"No, if you want to play, play Landlord!"

"Your game of Landlord is not fun at all. Look at this. I just bought it." He Jianchuyun said as he took out a box from the storage space. Inside was the Four Seasons Cards, made of wood, and each card had exquisite carvings on it.

"Come and play. If you can do it, I'll ask someone to make you a pair of gold ones someday. Okay?"

There was a hint of temptation in He Jian Chu Yun's tone. As expected, when Shen Yi heard the words "all gold", he obviously hesitated. Just when he began to be moved, Zhu Hong rushed over from the front yard and shouted, "Miss! Miss!"

Hearing Zhuhong calling him, He Jianchuyun had no choice but to give up temporarily and looked in the direction where Zhuhong was.

"what happened?"

"Manager Yang from the winery is here and wants to see you." As soon as Zhu Hong finished speaking, two figures appeared in the pavilion behind. They were Manager Yang and Master Qian.

"Oh." After putting away the box, she walked to the pavilion and sat down, then said, "Let them come over."

"Ok!"

Zhu Hong replied and motioned for the two to continue moving forward.

It was the first time for Yang Bayuan and Master Qian to enter Mingyan Courtyard. They looked around as they walked, just like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden. It was not until they came to the pavilion where He Jianchuyun was that they withdrew their gazes and became reserved.

"Miss."

"Please sit down." He Jianchuyun gestured to the opposite side, gently poured two cups of hot tea and pushed them over.

Yang Bayuan glanced at Shen Yi who was curled up beside the girl, and soon sat down on the chair opposite He Jianchuyun with Master Qian.

"Miss, are you and Miss Zhuhong the only ones in this yard?"

He Jian Chuyun frowned and pushed away Shen Yi's claws on his legs. When he spoke, he did not answer the question, but asked: "How is the winery going?"

"Miss, everything is fine at the winery. Now everything is ready, only the east wind is missing."

"Have you done what I asked you to do?"

"Don't worry, Miss. I went to find the Tiger Gang as soon as I received your letter."

"The results of it?"

"No surprises. I have already discussed it with Hall Master Qu. All the Tiger Gang members are very cooperative..."

"anything else?"

"Miss, I came to you for this matter. Can we trust the Tiger Gang? Although we don't have any grudges with the Tiger Gang, we do have some small conflicts between us. If they have ill intentions, I'm afraid something bad will happen!"

Yang Bayuan said seriously, and He Jianchuyun shook his head after listening: "Don't worry about this, just go ahead and do it. The new leader of the Tiger Gang... is one of us."

"One of our own? Then who is he?" Both of them showed puzzlement on their faces. Before Yang Bayuan came out of Shen Mansion, he had a guess in his mind that the new leader of the Tiger Gang might be Qu Ye. But after he went to Baihu Hall and met Qu Ye in person, his guess was denied by facts, which made him even more curious about who the new leader of the Tiger Gang is.

In addition, he was also puzzled by Qu Ye, who had no contact with them before, but suddenly became friendly with them.

It's really baffling.

He Jian Chuyun glanced at Shen Yi, and Shen Yi blinked at her.

I originally wanted to tell Yang Bayuan the truth. After all, several workers in the winery, as well as Yang Bo and Li Rong, already knew that Shen Yi could speak human language, so it wouldn't matter if I told them something more shocking.

But she understood Shen Yi's eyes, and thought that it made sense. It would be too magical to say that the current leader of the Tiger Gang was a contracted beast. If the people in the Tiger Gang knew about it, there would inevitably be a big mess.

She decided not to tell Yang Bayuan the truth, not because she didn't trust him, but because the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

Not many people in the world would be willing to accept being ridden on their heads by a contracted beast. As the leader of the Tiger Gang, Shen Yi can hide for a while, but not forever. After all, someone has to be found to replace the position of gang leader, but there is no candidate yet.

"When the time comes, I will tell you. You don't have to worry about whether the Tiger Gang can be trusted. He is one of us. I will only tell you this. Do you have any other questions?"

Yang Bayuan opened his mouth and wanted to ask something, but the remaining questions were all trivial matters. If he asked everything clearly, it would make him look too incompetent. So he nodded and said respectfully: "Miss, I don't have any other questions."

After solving the question he wanted to know the answer to most, Yang Bayuan did not disturb He Jianchuyun too much. After chatting for a while, he left with Master Qian.

When they left Mingyan Courtyard, Master Qian asked, "Manager, are the Tiger Gang really our own people?"

"Since the young lady said so, then they are. Why, you can't even trust the young lady?"

"No, no, I just feel like I'm dreaming."

"Don't think too much, let's go." The two of them walked towards the exit of Zhu Mansion, one in front and one behind. On the way, Yang Bayuan was silent, thinking about something in his mind.

This young lady of his family had been in Jiangzhou City for less than a month, and not only had she brought the winery that was on the verge of bankruptcy back to life, she had even won over the Tiger Gang, a large gang. In contrast, he had made no achievements in the past year and a half, and had even caused the winery to regress a lot. This made him sigh, as he had almost starved to death a long time ago.

Perhaps, this is the eldest daughter raised in a large family.

...(End of chapter)